August 31, 2015
Defendant asks judge to declare Malibu Media a vexatious litigant
Nearly every motion authored by Jason Sweet or Dan Booth is a treat. Once in a while the treat is so good I can’t help sharing the joy with others….
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August 30, 2015
How Lipscomb & Co take advantage of unrepresented defendants
I’m looking at the 8/28/2015 motion to show cause why a pro se defendant in Malibu Media v. Greg Weaver (FLMD 14-cv-01580) shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating Judge…
August 25, 2015
Feds accuse X-Art/Malibu Media’s attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker of a $7,000,000 payday loan fraud
Colorado attorney Jason Aaron Kotzker filed about 450 shakedown lawsuits on behalf of a “barely legal” pornography purveyor X-Art/Malibu Media in New York and Colorado. In October 2014 he abruptly…
August 23, 2015
Why did Lipscomb cut and run from a seemingly slam dunk case?
Malibu Media v. Michael Harrison (INSD 12-cv-01117) lasted for 3 years and amassed almost 400 documents — more than any other porn copyright trolling lawsuit by a large margin. Two…
July 26, 2015
Judge rules that German investigators’ evidence is insufficient to prove direct infringement
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. William Kingdon Clifford In myriads of Bittorent cases across the country, copyright trolls…
July 06, 2015
Citing previous Malibu Media’s sheer abuse of court process, New York judge denies early discovery
When a porn copyright shakedown factory Malibu Media / X-Art resumed its operations in New York after a two-year hiatus, it raised many brows because this state has proven to…
May 26, 2015
Court scolds copyright troll Malibu Media for improper litigation tactics
An Ohio Judge Timothy Black clearly understands the shakedown nature of the Malibu Media/XArt pornotrolling cases, and he is irritated. Judge Black admonished the troll on more than one occasion…
May 12, 2015
Florida Judge: infringement of 47 XArt’s “works“ warrants only $6,000 in damages
Last month I wrote about a default judgement in a Malibu Media case: an Illinois judge expressed a concern that all these lawsuits are designed to be a secondary revenue…
April 29, 2015
X-Art shakes down yet another ill and broke victim
We don’t want to ruin someone’s life,” Field asserted. “I do not want to cause anyone financial hardship. From X-Art’s owner Colette Field’s interview (9/27/2014) This is a situation when…
April 26, 2015
An unusual default judgement in Illinois: the good, the bad and the ugly
On Friday 4/24/2014, ILND Judge Robert M. Dow Jr granted the plaintiff’s motion for default judgement¹ in Malibu Media v. Jack Funderburg (ILND 13-cv-02614). While default judgments are (sadly) not…
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